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...Goto ’11, brother of renowned violinist Midori Goto, will join the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) this Sunday in a concert featuring the music of Strauss, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Goto will solo in Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Touted by conductor Lorin Maazel as one of the finest young performers today, Goto has toured internationally over the past several years, playing with the London Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic, and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. This semester, Goto has performed in Kansas, San Francisco, and Mexico City...
...heritage that has nothing to do with Germanic or Austrian music. But I could immediately tell [the music I was playing] just fit there. It was just natural for the audience and the orchestra. It was the same playing a Paganini Concerto with an Italian orchestra and Lorin Maazel. I felt like I was just playing by myself because they were so put together...
...Under the baton of Lorin Maazel, the evening's program began with both national anthems and included Dvorak's New World Symphony and Gershwin's An American in Paris. The latter was played by the NYP with suitable pluck, its feverish honks and unbridled gusto trenchantly counterpointing North Korea's stagnation...
...Grand Theater, an ornate, three-tier orchestra hall whose stage had recently been fitted with a new acoustic shell to make the venue worthy of the New York Philharmonic. About 1,400 people jammed the hall--a few dozen foreign diplomats and business people, the rest North Koreans. When Maazel took the podium, it quickly became clear that the evening would be one of emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. For the next two hours, it was easy to forget that during...
...soon became clear that I would not be seeing very much of it. The North Koreans, to say the least, are control freaks. Hordes of government minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra's music director, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to have a group picture taken in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The minders, whose forced conviviality didn't hide the tension in their faces, would not leave our side until about 44 hours later, when we got on a flight out of Pyongyang...